Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
HOWEVER - from a keyboard enthusiast's perspective - this keyboard is bad. The PCB and case are not-standard, which will make it very hard for you to replace it, shall you want let's say a CNC aluminum case (like the pok3r's, for example). The 'programming' is not great either - there are better options out there that allow you to temper with the 'main' layer in a graphical and intuitive way.
In summary - this keyboard is a great 60% starter keyboard - it's just that it's not expandable in almost any way. I would go for the pok3r, just for the better case, and for those of you who want to program your keyboard - this is not it.